Interesting Links for 01-04-2012
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andrewducker- FILM-CRITIC HULK EXPLAINS WHY WE SHOULD STOP IT WITH THE HERO JOURNEY SHIT (great writing hidden behind caps)
- 14 Common Dog Behavior Myths Decoded
- Shockingly, clothes are not designed to fit the actual shape of women. (Were they ever?)
- 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women
- Payback Is a Bitch for Abortion Clinic Protestors, Thanks to a Brilliant Landlord
- What if carpenters had forums the way that photographers/audiophiles/gun collectors do...
- Google Really Advanced Search
- Social connections can get you a job, but it takes intelligence to advance in it.
- British airlines now checking against US no-fly list for flights not going to the US
- A Treasure Trove of Cosplay from the Swinging 1970s [NSFW]
- Michelangelo's "The creation of God"
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Date: 2012-04-01 11:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 01:15 pm (UTC)Select all in the browser.. In Word...
Date: 2012-04-01 03:33 pm (UTC)Ctrl-A -- Select All
Shift-F3 -- Toggle Case
Shift-F3 -- Toggle Case
I think you need to toggle it twice to get to sentence case.
Re: Select all in the browser.. In Word...
Date: 2012-04-01 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 06:49 pm (UTC)I don't think nonsense like that helps anyone.
* e.g. the "hero gets a woman, I think I'm a hero, thus I deserve a woman at the end of it": this is both real, and quite bad. Just 'cos you do heroic stuff doesn't actually mean that some woman you fancy will or indeed should automatically fall in love with you. However, the "I'm the protagonist of my life, thus I'm a galaxy-saving hero" argument doesn't follow for all men, just self-deluded douchebags, presumably of which the author is one.
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Date: 2012-04-01 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 08:17 pm (UTC)However, the woman-as-reward thing is clear objectification, he's just really over-egged it.
The apologism is kind of in the opposite direction to what I'd expect from a 'feminist' post such as this one. He seems to be arguing that men are all base creatures, who think only of sex. Well, I'm a man, and I don't actually think of it that often. I don't think I actually know anyone who's as obsessed with it as he claims to be.
I think this sort of "Men are all like this, amoral, instinct led creatures" (who, presumably could rape at any second) claim, is promoting a way of looking at the world which simply isn't true, and actually encourages men to be the amoral douchebags he seems to be trying to rail against. For the rest of us men, it's just telling lies which provide women more reason to fear and hate us all. It's awful.
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Date: 2012-04-01 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 09:27 pm (UTC)I think if someone's really serious about making an equal world, then these "most men are like that, most of the time" sweeping generalisation are very backward. I think that "men have to be sex obsessed" is a similar big societal pressure to "women have to look pretty", I think throwing your hands up and saying "Oh! I admit it, I'm one of these awful, awful men" is pathetic, as it's declaring that you *are* the stereotype, and denying the essential humanity and decency of 50% of the human population.
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Date: 2012-04-04 03:10 pm (UTC)The generalisation about how men think about sex and the dignity of work was, to be honest, insulting to me.
I once had the great good fortune to be able to stand inside a $100m gas turbine talking to two engineers, one who had built it back in the early 90’s when it was state of the art and the other who was designing the current state of the art. One of them pointed out that the ceramic tiles we were standing on were the same as the tiles on the Space Shuttle.
I was standing there thinking “Wow, I’m helping to fix something that’s as cool as the Space Shuttle and which keeps all the lights in Liverpool on; and I get paid to do it. I’m touching Space Shuttle tiles, how effing cool is that?!!”
I wasn’t thinking “Wow this big machine and my huge pay check will really help me get laid in Runcorn tonight.”
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Date: 2012-04-01 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 09:17 pm (UTC)"See, every single male..."
"all of those powerful people only became powerful because they heard that women like power."
"It's why every Nice Guy..."
And that's just the obvious examples. The article's written entirely from the POV that the author is speaking for All Men ("we", meaning "men", is used in all sorts of generalisations.).
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Date: 2012-04-02 10:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-04 03:08 pm (UTC)I’d be worried if this was the first thing the Captain read about gender relations because I think it says – all men are just naturally sex obsessed, shallow and driven to be successful (in limited fields of manly endeavour) in order to gain sex; and this means you. You’re naturally scum and you can’t help it.
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Date: 2012-04-01 09:53 pm (UTC)I suppose it's one way to get men to do that less though.
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Date: 2012-04-01 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-01 08:42 pm (UTC)